FAMILY PLANNING AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN KWANDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE

This study investigated modern family planning practices among married Women in kwande local government area of benue state the theory reviewed was health belief model while the conceptual framework was done under the following sub-headings ; modern family planning ,IUC, parity , age, hormonal and natural family planning and empirical reviews. The study employed cross-sectional design. Eight research questions and four hypotheses guided the study.the population of the study was 1480 pregnant married women and a sample size of 291 was used .instrument titled modern family planning practices among married women Questionnaire (MFPPMWQ) was used to obtained data from respondents . the reliability result yielded co-efficient index of 0.980. frequencies and percentages were used to answered eight research questions while pearson chi-quare was used to test the four null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. Findings revealed that ; there is a significant difference in the family planning methods practiced among married women based on parity, there is a significant difference in the family planning methods practiced among married women based on age, there is significant difference in the reasons for using family planning among married women based on parity and there is a significance different in the reasons for using family planning among married women based on age. The study recommended that married women should ensure to adopt different modern family planning according to their number of children they wish to have, couples should agree within themseives to use family planning methods that suit their age , married women should ensure that one reason of using barrier methods of family planning is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and to avoid contact with infectious diseases and married women should use hormonal methods of family planning based on age range.